I've been busy. Harvesting, planting, repairing, etc. Things are moving along, some good, some not so good.
I haven't had the time or energy to write about this here, preferring instead to make short video clips and put them on our YouTube page. It's just a lot easier, at least for me, though the fact that I don't edit the videos might make it harder on you!
Below are a few of the latest videos. The first two are about the swather, which is used to put the kernza into windrows, where it dries down for a few days prior to going through the combine. The grain on the head of the kernza is dry before the stems, and the green stems would plug up the combine. But --- we need the mass of material going through the combine to properly thresh the hard to shell kernza. The action of the combine rubs all that material together, in the process filtering out the grain from the chaff. We plan to harvest the kernza with the combine and pick up head on Sept 4th (tomorrow!).
Before harvesting the wheat, we swathed, then combined it and put it in the bin to cool down and dry a little. The wheat should be ready to market/sell in another week or two.
The last video/pic is of purple top turnip seeds which I'm drilling into the tilled wheat stubble as a cover crop. It'll grow some this fall, but I'm hopeful that it will come back next spring, before I'll mow it down ahead of next summer's soybeans.
Late summer of 2021 I drilled purple top turnips as part of a cover crop mix. This is what came back in the spring of 2022.
